''The Children Who Cheated the Nazis'' is a documentary about the

Kindertransport The ''Kindertransport'' (German for "children's transport") was an organised rescue effort of children (but not their parents) from Nazi-controlled territory that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of the Second World ...

, by the director Sue Read and producer Jim Goulding. This documentary film was broadcast by Channel 4 on 28 September 2000, and has since been broadcast in America, Israel, France, Australia, Spain and worldwide. The film is narrated by Lord Richard Attenborough,

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winning film actor and director, who features in the film, talking about the two Kindertransport children his family gave a home to. Also featured is

Warren Mitchell Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was a British actor. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes ''Educatin ...

, whose family also took in a Kindertransport child.

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's website 2000 films Channel 4 original programming Documentary films about children in the Holocaust Kindertransport 2000 television specials Documentary films about child refugees Channel 4 documentaries 2000s British films {{Holocaust-film-stub

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